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J. B. DBEDS.

HYDROGARBON GENERATOR AND BURNER.

Patented May 18, 1886. 235.1.

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UNITED STATESv PATENT OFFICE..

JOHN B. DEEDS, OF TERRE HAUTE, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR OF ONEHALF TO LOUIS S.' OALDER, OF SAME PLACE.

HYDROCARBON GENERATOR AND BURNER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 342,189, dated May 18, 1886. Application filed February 9, i886. Serial No. 191,200. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern.: to be converted into gas is also better heated Be it known that I, JOHN B. DEEDs, a citiand vapor-ized. zen of the United States, residing at Terre- This apparatus can be practically adapted Haute, in the county of Vigo and State of to hot-air furnaces, stoves for cooking and Indiana, have invented certain new and useheating purposes, and also for producing heat 55 ful Improvementsin Hydrocarbon Generators to generate steam for power or heating purand Burners; and I do hereby declare the folposes; also, is of great importance for the prolowing to be a full, clear, and exact description duction of ill uminatinggas. of the invention, such as will enable others In the drawings, A denotes a hollow ellip- 1o skilled in the art to which it appertains to tical or other formed vessel, heater, or retort, 6o make and use the same. made of the strongest metal or material, and The object of my invention is to produce a divided lengthwise by two partitions, ab, into hydrocarbon burner orheater that willneither three distinct chambers, I3 G D, of which B leak nor make the disagreeable odors that is and D are iilled with iron lllings, and C with I5 a damaging characteristic of all other burners wire-gauze, the better to disseminate and de- 65 of which I have any knowledge, while at the compose the fluids being vaporized. same time there is a combustion of every parcc designate openings in the partition-walls ticle of gas, a greater intensity of heat, and a c I), whereby communication is established superior quality of gas for illuminating or between the chambers B, D, and C. Of these o heating purposes resulting from its action than chambers B is the eil-vaporizing chamber, D, 7c obtains in the use of many other burners herethe watcr-vaporizing chamber, and C the mixtofore employed. ing and superheating chamber, wherein the The natnreof my invention consists in provapors generated in chambers B D are mixed, viding an apparatus to burn the gas produced superheated, and iixed before being utilized for by the vaporization oi petroleum or other heating or illuminating purposes. The open- 7 5 volatileiluids and Water. To accomplish these ings c c are shown located at the upper edge important ends,I combinemcchanical agencies of the partition-plates. W'hile this is preferin a novel arrangement which is so ordered able for establishing a communication to the that cach part co-operatcs with all the others mixing-chamber, whereby the vapor can readto produce the desired objects. 4 ily escape from the vaporizing-chambers, it 83 My invention will be better understood by will be understood that my invention is not referring to the drawings, of which Figure 1 limited to this particular means, since comis a vertical sectional View; and Fig. 2 is a munication may be had between the vaporizhorizontal sectional View ot the vaporizing ing chambers and the mixingchamber by and mixing chambers, taken in the line .fr a: of means of small pipes extending outside ofthe 85 Fig. I. retort, (Ye.

In my apparatus each of the longitudinal Condnits or pipes E F, to convey oil and vaporizing-chambers of the heater or vaporwater, lead into the vaporizingehambers from izer is iilled with iron iilings, by which the beneath. Connected to the pipes E F by 4o Iiuid is more thinly disseminated and its vatight screw-joints are pipes G- H, iilled with go porization more readily effected, also serving charcoal or other carbonaceous substance, or to heat such iiuid to better advantage than asiliciousmatcrial,such as sand. Ateach end heretofore. of the pipes G H are removable Wire lattice or My invention also relates to the ar angeperforated thin plate diaphragms 1), to prement of induction and eduction pipes with vent the escape of the charcoal or sand. The 95 respect to the burner or heater, whereby they oil, in passing through the charcoal in pipe become exposed to the blaze and heat of the G, is carbureted to a greater or less degree, burner, and as a consequence not only is the and hence the illuminating properties of the water vaporized to better advantage and the gas that is evolved from it are improved in a 5o steam superheated, but the petroleum or iiuid corresponding ratio. In fact, the chemical roo action of the charcoal,when the oil comes into contact with it, is to produce a slight evolution of gas from the latter, which to some eX- tcnt is charged with carbon spirit, and is therefore superior as an illuiniiiating-gas to the gas that is produced simply by the oil.

lt will beuiiderstood that the pipes for supplying the oil and water are provided with the usual index-valves, to register the flow 0f fluid and valves for turning on and off the ilow of fluid. These are so well known inthis class of inventions that further description is unnecessary.

To the lower and central portion of the va por-mixing chamber is attached the pipe K and burner L, Vby which the gas and heated vapor are conveyed under the retort A for consumption. rllie gases generated passing through the pipe K are lcd immediately and directlyundcr the centerof the retort A,where they are discharged through thc burner L. '.llie gases may be controlled by a valve located in the pipe K,whicl1 also serves to extinguish the light from the burner and prevent the e'scape of gas leftin the pipe K and chamber C after the supply of oil has been turned off, which gas, if it escaped7 would produce unwholesome and unpleasant odors.

Q Beneath the burner L is a pan, M, into which oil is poured and ignited when rst starting the retort, and kept up until asufl'icient quanti-ty of the fluid has been vaporized to supply the burner with gas from the mixing-chamber.

N is a shield or hood, the object of which is to confine the flame and direct the same toward and in contact with the retort, and at the same time allowing suflicient space at the bottom for the admission of air to support coinbustion and a sufficient space at the top to allow the escape of the flame.

O designates a deflecting plate, screwthreaded at its under side and fitting into an opening correspondingly screw threaded on the upper part of the retort, whereby the llame escaping through the opening O is deilected and the plate readily removed to permit entiance to the mixing-chamber for repairs, the introduction of wire-gauze, &c.

f f designate openings in the chambers B D7 whereby said chambers may be iilled with the iron iilings, boriiigs, &c. These openings may be closed by suitable screw-tlireaded caps, as shown.

rlhe operation of my invention is as follows: The chambers B and D being filled or partially filled with oil and water, heat is applied to the retort by means of alcoholic or other suitable iluid ignited in the pan M until the vapors generated in the retort ilow through the pipe K and begin to issue from the burner L and ignition of the same can be effected. This process will not usually require more than one or two minutes of time. The inoment ignition of the escaping gas occurs the flame, .in ascending through the central openthe flame directed against`the retort at all sides.

I am aware that hydrocarbon-vapor generators have been heretofore constructed of a mixing-chamber together with vaporizingchambers for both the water and oil or steam, as the case may be; but in such former instances they have been constituted, not by a single vessel divided into three separate com partinents, but, rather, as an instance, of two pipes or tubes uniting with the ends of a third tube.

I ain aware, further, that in this class of inventions a single vessel divided into three compartments has been heretofore employed; but in such instance each of the compartments is used as a vaporizing-chamber, having no communication with each other, myinveiition being distinguished from those of heretofore in that a single vessel is resorted to, divided into three separate compartments, the outer two of which constitute vaporiziiig-chambers and the third a central mixing-chamber.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is- 1. In a hydrocarbon-vapor generator and burner, the combination ofthe retort divided longitudinally into two outer vaporiziugchambers and a central mixing-chamber, and means for heating the saine, substantially as described.

2. The combination of the retort constructed with the central mixing chamber and two outer vaporizingchambers communicating with the mixing-chamber, iiilet-pipes connecting with each vaporizing-cliamber, and a pipe leading from the mixing-chamber to a burner, substantially as described. y

3. The combi nation ofthe retort constructed with two outer vaporizing-chanibers having filling-openings for a material, as iron filings or other suitable material, and a central miX- ing-chaniber filled with wire-gauze, the deileetor-plate secured in the top of said latter chamber, and the enveloping hood or shield, all arranged substantially as and for the pur pose described.

4. The combination of the retort A, as described, enveloping-shield N, detlector O, inlet-pipes E F, having filtering-connections, as specified, burner L, and pan M, arranged substantially as and for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN B. DEEDS,

Vitnesses:

THoiuAs I. Oe-L, ALPHEUs G. SERiGi-rr.

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